This show has performances in multiple locations

Description

Unhook your mindbras. David O'Doherty is back in Edinburgh with a brand-new show made up of talking and songs played on a crappy keyboard from 1986. As seen on BBC Two's Live at the Apollo and Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

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The Wee Review
(4/5 stars)95 days ago

“What is laughter, if not happy screaming?” posits David O’ Doherty, in perfect summation of the theme of his show, You Have to Laugh. O’Doherty urges us to combat the trials and anxieties of these challenging political times by embracing levity and laughing at the absurdity of modern life. He...

ThreeWeeks
(4/5 stars)95 days ago

I mean, you don’t have to laugh, O’Doherty isn’t forcing you; although, he sort of is, because he’s really good at saying (and singing) such entertaining stuff. From procrastination to trying to make sense of the somewhat bleak times we’re living in, he helps us to find the funny side...

Chortle
(4.5/5 stars)98 days ago

Ahh, that’s better. The world is going to hell in a handcart and if only there were more David O’Dohertys to make everything all right. His attitude isn’t to be apolitical, to bury his head in the sand, he wants to go right up to the madness and laugh in...